genekellys:The pie fight scene lasts four minutes and was shot in five days. It is the longest pie f
genekellys:The pie fight scene lasts four minutes and was shot in five days. It is the longest pie fight sequence in movie history. At first, the cast had fun filming the pie fight scene, but eventually the process grew wearisome and dangerous. Natalie Wood choked briefly on a pie which hit her open mouth. Jack Lemmon got knocked out a few times: “a pie hitting you in the face feels like a ton of cement”. At the end of shooting the fight, when Blake Edwards called “Cut!” he was barraged with several hundred pies that members of the cast had hidden, waiting for the moment THE GREAT RACE dir. Blake Edwards -- source link